10th January 2006, 7:39 PM
Line item vetoes are NEEDED though.
Now, I understand the weakness in that. One can shred a new law into doing something that undermines the original intentions of the bill by disgarding a piece of it. However, if the house gets the chance to review what was individually vetoed and decide then whether or not the bill is still as it was originally intended, then it should be rendered immune to that sort of tampering.
The "paperclip trick" is pretty sickening if you ask me.
Now, I understand the weakness in that. One can shred a new law into doing something that undermines the original intentions of the bill by disgarding a piece of it. However, if the house gets the chance to review what was individually vetoed and decide then whether or not the bill is still as it was originally intended, then it should be rendered immune to that sort of tampering.
The "paperclip trick" is pretty sickening if you ask me.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)